Altar Society Plans Annual Bazaar Sunday
St. Therese's Altar Society hosts a Sunday bazaar and dinner in Veterans Memorial Hall with ham and yams menu and salads. The event includes parcel post booths, baked goods, white elephant items, cakes and candy, plus games and raffles led by a large volunteer team.
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Shafter
St. Therese's Altar Society
Bil Brown
William Fairbanks
Lawrence Bacphoian
Joe Frizzell
Altar Society
St. Therese’s Altar Society
Veterans Memorial Hall
Sweets Booth
Mesd
Sylvia Baughman
Wilbur Stocker
J. W. Frizzell
Bazaar Cochairmen
A. G. Mortimore
Mike Sresovich
John Butler
Parcel Post
Jack Fleming
Tom Letizia
Hugh Sill
J. C. Hodges
Bill Brown
Anna Steinmeier
Frank Sill
Mesdames
Frank Contreras
Lisle Laughlin
Clifford Weaver
Mike Leavell
Jan Gibson Named Shafter High DAR Good Citizen Representative
Jan Gibson daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred L Gibson of Shafter was chosen as the Shafter High School representative for the 1952 Good Citizen ship Contest by the school faculty from three senior girls nominees. Nominees included Donna Weitz and another Donna Hare. The district winner receives a $25 bond and progresses to state competition with an essay. the statewide prize is a $100 bond. Jan will receive a certificate from the National Society DAR and may receive a local good citizenship pin.
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Jan Gibson
Fred L. Gibson
Euclid J., Shafter
Shafter High School
California Society, Daughters of the American Revolution
Jan
Donna Weitz
Donna. Hare
National Society ‘of
Dar
Johnsons Host Guests and Visit Hoover Dam Trip
Busy week for Mr. and Mrs. Nick Johnson of 622 Pacific St. Their son Homer Hendricks, a sergeant from Long Beach, stayed in Shafter Monday and Tuesday. The couple hosted Leonard Johnson of Shafter and Hoot Perry of Tulare for dinner. They traveled to Las Vegas Sunday night to see Hoover Dam and the Last Frontier nightclub, returning early Tuesday morning.
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Nick Johnson
Pacific St
Homer Hendricks
Long Beach
Shafter
Johnsons
Leonard Johnson
Hoot Perry
Tulare
Las Vegas
Hoover Dam
Deer Hunters Travel For Game on Kern Flats
A Buttonwillow Wasco hunting party spent 10 days on Kern Flats bagging two deer and a 400 pound bear. Members include Bill Radford Ed Neufeld Roy Gafner A V Gill Frank Gafner Lee Trible Sterling Grant Frank Barber Tilton Tracy Dale Parmeter Nick Gilmer Babe Durando and B Patton.
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Buttonwillow
Wasco
Kern Flats
Bill Radford
Ed Neufeld
Roy Gafner
A. V. Gill
Frank Gafner
Lee Trible
Sterling Grant
Frank Barber
Tilton Tracy
Dale Parmenter
Nick Gilmer
Babe Durando
B. Patton
Velvet Fashion Show Delights Bakersfield Club Audience
Minnette's of Bakersfield sponsored a fall fashion revue by the Junior Women's Club at Memorial Hall. Bakersfield models modeled velvet styles while Bert Brown described the outfits. Mrs. Harvey Neuman led the exception. About 125 attendees enjoyed coffee and cakes as dolls at each table were auctioned.
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Memorial’ Hall
Minnette’s
Bakersfield
Harvey Neuman
Bert Brown
Harry Thompson
Robert Mettler
Donald Zachary
Ee. A. Brown
Leland Bell
Potluck Luncheon Planned by Starlight Circle Wasco
At the Faber street home of Mrs. E. B. Stringham the Starlight Circle of Wasco Eastern Star will host a potluck luncheon at 12 30 p m on November 17. Irvin Barr chaired the program with a Wasco High School male quartet. Charles Lee led the serving crew as members enjoyed cider coffee and doughnuts. J W Lassiter was initiated into the Circle as the group met for brothers night. Next meeting is set for November 10 in Wasco.
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Faber Street
E. B. Stringham
Starlight Circle
Wasco Eastern Star
Irvin Barr
Wasco High School
Charles Lee
J. W. Lassister
Wasco
Firemen Plan Annual Halloween Benefit Dance
Members of the Shafter Fire Department host their annual Halloween benefit dance tomorrow night at the Veterans Memorial Hall. Chief Don Little says Billy Mize and his band will provide music for the affair from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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Shafter Fire Department
Veterans Memorial Hall
Don Little
Billy Mize
Spooky Halloween Party Greets Church Crusaders
The Crusaders Sunday School Class of First Baptist Church hosted a spooky Halloween event in Zuckerman’s Potato Shed. Guests walked through a haunted chamber with a coffin, chained prisoner and masked screamer, followed by costumes contests, apple relay games, ghost storytelling, and a charcoal campfire gathering with pie and coffee. Planning committee members and attendees are named, including Allen Mettler and Dave Channeson. IRVIN WIENS from San Jose brings his family to the area for the cotton harvest and stays with relatives.
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Zuckerman’s
Crusaders
First Baptist Church
Allen Mettler
Dave Channeson
Charles Nelson
John Branner
Fred Scharat
Messrs
Irvin Wiens
San Jose
Ernest. Wiens
Polish Couple Welcomed at New Shafter Home
A Shafter couple with a history of 17 moves since Poland’s invasion were welcomed to their Thomas Lane home. Theodore Will, formerly of Loder, Poland, and his wife were greeted with a blessing by J. F. Richert after scripture by John Isaac. Attendees presented the couple with a chair, lamps, a table, a coffee table and a medicine cabinet.
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Shafter
Poland
Thomas Lane
Theodore Will
Loder
John Isaac
J. F. Richert
Pete Isaac
William Suckitt
Jacob Ebel
Abe Zachariah
Iaac Weigand
David Strauss
P. J. Buller
George Mayer
Dave Buller
Mary Barling
Abram Toews
Anna_ Nightingale
Hulda Voth
Hulda Greybill
Post-Game Singspiration Planned by Youth Fellowship
The Youth Fellowship group of the Mennonite Brethren Church will hold a singspiration program after the Shafter Wasco football game on Nov. 7. Norman Berg, chairman, announced today. Participants from all denominations or unaffiliated groups are invited. Refreshments will be served with the musical program.
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Mennonite Brethren’ Church
Norman Berg
Treats for Tricksters Homemade cookies and doughnuts offered
A home service guide lists easy party sweets for Halloween. Recipes include peanut butter cookies with shortning and brown sugar, peanut popcorn balls, doughnuts fried in oil, and chocolate oatmeals.
Paganini Quartet Opens S-W Concert Series
The Paganini Quartet will present the 1952-53 Wasco community concert opener at 8:15 p.m. in Wasco Union High School Auditorium. Members Temianka Rogsscels Foidart Frezin perform on four Paganini Stradivari. The ensemble, famed since 1946, blends Beethoven Brahms and Haydn with contemporary works for refined chamber music.
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Paganini Quartet
Shafter-Wasco Community Concerts Association
Dorothy Trew
Wasco Union High School
Wlothdocts
TNC Quaiflct
Ken'ri Temianka
Gustave Rogsscels
Charles Foidart
Adolphe Frezin
Nicholo Paganini
Library of Congress
New York
New Friends of Music
Paganini
Cal Instruments
Beethoven
Brahms
Haydn
Frank Wiebe Visits Oceanside Family
Mr and Mrs Frank Wiebe visited their daughter and her family the Glenn Copers who moved back to Oceanside the first of September Sgt Cooper recently hospitalized in the Bay area is back at Marine Corps work He spent time in the Orient last summer Recent visitors in the Wiebe home were her brother and his wife Mr and Mrs Walter Dohner of Fullerton.
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Maple
Frank Wiebe
Oceanside
Glenn Coopers
Cooper
Bay Area
Marine Corps
Orient
Wiebe
Walter’ Dohner
Fullerton
Memorial Rites Held for Mrs Greer and Son Jerry
A dedicatory service at First Baptist Church honored Mrs. Tia Greer and her son Jerry. Offerings included a church gift from Jerry and a gold plaque to be placed in memory. Music featured Mrs. Leota Adams and Dick Patrick with Rev. and Mrs. Gene Vaught.
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Jesus
Gene Vaught
Vaught
Greer and Son
Robert L. Hughes
Tressie Ringsdort
W. H. Parsons
Nazarene Revival Ends This Sunday at Church of the Nazarene
Pastor J. Austin McNaught reports the revival ends this Sunday after nightly sessions led by Rev. and Mrs. C. M. Whitley. Highlights include a 9:45 a.m. Sunday class with 2000 pencils on display, an 11 a.m. evangelistic service, a 2:30 p.m. illustrated message on Nebuchadnezzar, and a 7:30 p.m. closing service followed by a potluck at Shafter County Park.
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Church of the Nazarene
J. Austin McNaught
C. M.whitley
Whitley
Shafter
Nebuchadnezzar
Donald Millard Promoted to Sergeant at Kadena Air Base
Donald Millard 21 son of Mrs Estellene Millard 716 Myers Lane was promoted to sergeant on Oct 12 while serving as a clerk typist at Kadena Air Base Okinawa. He has 18 months Air Force service and has been overseas since January. Millard a Shafter High School graduate is married to Naomi Bryant.
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Donald Millard
Estellene Millard
Myers
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